"So, yesterday, I am at a shopping mall in Dartford near London to seek replacement parts for my Dyson Hoover.

After my primary mission, I decide to take a walk around. You know these shopping malls are so attractive, just walking around and looking at hundreds of products displayed through glass gives you joy.

Then, I remember I needed to get some paracetamol, and head to Boots, a pharmacy within the same mall that stocks virtually all the medicines you can think of.

That decision to go to Boots, would eventually put me into thoughts that would pervade my mental space for the next twenty four hours.

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While shopping, I saw this man, probably about my age.

He looked very very familiar. I couldn't place it at that moment, so my brain did a frantic search within its limbic system, searching memory files that related this face to significant events in my life,and returned a possible match.

My brain told me the match wasn't too good.

In the year 2002, or maybe 2003, I was a Medical student in the University of Nigeria Enugu Campus (UNEC). It was a sister campus to the main University (UNN). UNEC was the campus where the Faculties of Medicine, Law, Health Science, Business and Estate Management were located.

This period was a time when Cult activities in Universities nationwide was somewhat at its peak.

UNEC at the time, shared the same fence with Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), whose cult related violence was way above the national average, with very violent public executions happening almost every semester.

Some of that violence, ended up on the UNEC side of the fence, as the targets when being chased, cross the gate of the fence into UNEC, where their attackers hunt them down and finish them off.

As a result, while UNEC students didnt engage much in violent cult activities (at least on University grounds), they had a good dose of it.

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There was this particular episode I witnessed. I had gone to an eating joint just in front of the Faculty of Business Administration, which was not far from the UNEC/ESUT gate.

About three seats away from me, was this gentleman who had just finished his meal. I had no reason to suspect anything was amiss.

He made to get up to leave, and suddenly about seven hefty boys surrounded him, dragged him outside and dealt him several matchet wounds. Gunshots were fired in the air, and everybody started running helter-skelter.

Now, in the eating joint we visited, we could not afford the luxury of running as that would place us directly in the pathway of the violence, which was happening just outside the door. The owner of the restaurant simply locked us inside.This placed us at a vantage point to witness first hand the movie that was unfolding.

After being beaten, stabbed and shot on the leg, the guys left, and everyone thought the worst was over.

Apparently we were wrong as one of the attackers returned after the first round of beating, and headed towards their victim. I could hear his fellow cultist shout......."Emeka, bone!! Leave the guy, im go die before police come, no waste bullet abeg"....

The Emeka of a guy obviously was not listening. He approached their target on the ground, brought out his gun, aimed for the chest and...,BOOM!! After that he placed the gun POINT BLANK on the head and BOOM!! Those of us hiding in the Restaurant screamed in horror. The victim who had been making struggling movementson the ground stopped moving, as blood started oozing out of his head and chest.

Well, the Police came one hour later to retrieve the body.

A guy who ordered a meal of Abacha and fried fish and ate it with relish, did not know he was having his last meal on Earth.

Anyway.....,back to London

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After my brain went through this search, the name Emeka just continued resonanting in my head.

The face was almost unmistakable. But that was over ten years ago. Perhaps you're just being too presumptious, a silent voice told me. Perhaps this is just a look alike, another inner voice said.

I decided to forget about everything. I went to the counter to pay for the drugs I bought. There was a lady in front of me. She looked around as if she was looking for someone, perhaps someone who had accompanied her to the place. After looking around in disappointment, she brought out her phone dialled a number, and spoke...."Emeka, biko bia na Counter"...(Emeka, please come to the counter).

I looked round, and it became very obvious whom she was calling.

Our man in question came to the counter, holding a little girl in hand, probably his daughter, and going to meet the woman who called him, a woman I assumed to be his partner, and possibly mother to the girl.

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I was kinda disappointed in life that moment.

Here was a man, who had ensured his fellow human did not live, not only alive a decade later, but having a family, something which his victim would never have.

I was deeply immersed in thought I forgot about my immediate environment, as the event that day kept replaying in my head, and I kept trying to reconcile it with the person I was seeing.

His little daughter kept looking at me and smiling, showing me her furry present.

I smiled back, thanking God she is too small to tell a real smile from a fake one.

Sometimes, you just wish karma was real, precise and consistent."

By: Dr. Obinna Aligwekwe.

Irony of life, he would still get his own dish of payback, u just might not know when

Lol God visits the sins of the fathers..even to the third and fourth generation...

Wow!

Good narrative.

I graduated from ESUT in 2003 so I'm in the know of what you narrated. In 1999, during second semester exams, we practically jumped over a corpse in a pool of brain and blood to write our exams at the famous AC block.

You see, we are all fugitives from the law of averages. Given enough circumstances and participants in those circumstances, there's bound to be people who will go scot free from whatever crimes they committed. The law of averages rule who will and who will not die in wars, epidemics, natural disasters and sheer accidental deaths.

It is the understanding of this law that make people like me believe there's no god in the religious sense. In that context, therefore, your Emeka might enjoy bliss till he probably dies from natural causes at a very old age while a supposedly righteous person will have his or her life cut short by, perhaps, a police stray bullet.

That's the world for you.

N

Very good write up..
U should try poetry..... Nice one
Back to the topic,.. im sure karma would catch up with him. Its a universal law

I understand your feelings
But what would you do, when you have no evidence.
Just keep calm, God will take control.
U see that karma?
Is very sure... I tell you

Almost Same here o. My friend's father died in a tragic car crash when he was like 5yrs old. The bus conveying his dad and other passengers was a write off. The lorry driver who was at fault for overtaking when he shouldnt have was let go, because his boss who owned the lorry had connections with the 'Nigerian Police'...................being an unemployed graduate, he decided to join my lady friend in her business of catering/baking. They covered a wedding few months back. To his shock, that then driver's daughter was getting married and ironically the groom was his then BOSSES son! And they were saying stuff about knowing each other since they were young bla bla bla bla. He had to leave because didnt want to serve guest food with tears everywhere. What a crazy world!.......................

Hian

dingbang:
Lol God visits the sins of the fathers..even to the third and fourth generation...

That is not fair. Every one should pay for their sins.

@OP watch your back..

dingbang:
Lol God visits the sins of the fathers..even to the third and fourth generation...

Not anymore Sir, Jeremiah 31v29-30
“In those days people will no longer say,
‘The parents have eaten sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’
30 Instead, everyone will die for their own sin; whoever eats sour grapes—their own teeth will be set on edge.

and likely the wife doesn't know about this past.
what about the kids
I pray God be merciful to we all
karma is a bitch

Emeka but why

uzoclinton:
@OP watch your back..

Meaning what? You donkey?

Events of this nature begats Aethists.

uzoclinton:
@OP watch your back..

what da fvck is wrong with you? na u wan kill am? back to the real issue, it is written, dont be deceived for God is not mocked for whatsoever a man sows he shall reap!
remember what Jesus said to peter, he that killeth with the sword shall perish by the sword. my ppl those words will surely come to pass o.

gocac:
what da fvck is wrong with you? na u wan kill am? back to the real issue, it is written, dont be deceived for God is not mocked for whatsoever a man sows he shall reap!
remember what Jesus said to peter, he that killeth with the sword shall perish by the sword. my ppl those words will surely come to pass o.

you obviously don't know Hw cultists work... they'd do anything just to keep their secret. .now imagine that the Emeka guy is a nairalander and he saw this..
it would be easy for him to locate the Dr.considering the fact that he signed off with his name'

I'm trying to imagine the feeling you must have had seeing him and recalling it all.
...what will be will be....

All is fair in war...you either kill or b3 killed.

Lol. D way u r describing ur brain activity as if u r a Robot. Now back to this Emeka of a guy, he may not reap what he sow in this world, especially if he repent and become a good man. And also we do not know the atrocities that murdered guy committed in his life before he was murdered. We will all account what we did on Judgement day

oglalasioux:
Wow!

Good narrative.

I graduated from ESUT in 2003 so I'm in the know of what you narrated. In 1999, during second semester exams, we practically jumped over a corpse in a pool of brain and blood to write our exams at the famous AC block.

You see, we are all fugitives from the law of averages. Given enough circumstances and participants in those circumstances, there's bound to be people who will go scot free from whatever crimes they committed. The law of averages rule who will and who will not die in wars, epidemics, natural disasters and sheer accidental deaths.

It is the understanding of this law that make people like me believe there's no god in the religious sense. In that context, therefore, your Emeka might enjoy bliss till he probably dies from natural causes at a very old age while a supposedly righteous person will have his or her life cut short by, perhaps, a police stray bullet.

That's the world for you.

Deep rationalizing, well my take on this issue the said emeka would have repented and God may have spared him for a future purposes a vessel to spread his words and win souls
Life itself is funny, why do bad things happen to good people !!!

We are in a world where bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people

I really don't get the whole thing about cultism... Are they zombies... Imagine someone brainwashing me.... U gats be ready to use hypo...

Its a crazy world. For me, I would hv confronted the guy there.

I know this is a made up story and all of you who commented before me are either foolish and wicked or co authors of the tales by moonlight by the OP. It's as simple as that. What evidence are we talking about; Is it too difficult to report the matter to the metropolitan police which will then report to interpol to get the Emeka for questioning? I guess in all of your own constitution crimes die with time. Imagine the best an educated "Doctor" based in the UK can do; come to NL to tell a gruesome story of a murder you witnessed live? What a shame. I will take this up personally. Nigerian Embassy in UK, The IG of police, Honourable Abike Dabiri, UNEC authorities through its chief security,The families of a young man who lost his life in the circumstance described, The SUG President at that time, and the general public must be on notice. A killer Emeka from UNEC is in the UK. There must be closure.

meezynetwork:
Its a crazy world. For me, I would hv confronted the guy there.

You be Man. That's what I expect to hear. A mother lost a child and am reading people taking about God keeping a killer for a reason.

RIP Innocent. I pray nobody sees your killer and don't organise a citizens arrest or inform the police. You can't die for no just reason and your killer goes on with life happily. We your friends and family misses you and will get your death justice.

azimibraun:
I know this is a made up story and all of you who commented before me are either foolish and wicked or co authors of the tales by moonlight by the OP. It's as simple as that. What evidence are we talking about; Is it too difficult to report the matter to the metropolitan police which will then report to interpol to get the Emeka for questioning? I guess in all of your own constitution crimes die with time. Imagine the best an educated "Doctor" based in the UK can do; come to NL to tell a gruesome story of a murder you witnessed live? What a shame. I will take this up personally. Nigerian Embassy in UK, The IG of police, Honourable Abike Dabiri, UNEC authorities through its chief security,The families of a young man who lost his life in the circumstance described, The SUG President at that time, and the general public must be on notice. A killer Emeka from UNEC is in the UK. There must be closure.

Assuming the story is true ,it will be difficult to prove that the guy killed somebody,how many people can identify that the emeka was the killer of the security man at the scene of crime over 10 years ago